Huawei Supplies Next-gen Home Location Register in Indonesia

Huawei has installed a next-generation Home Location Register ("ngHLR") for Hutchison CP Telecommunications Indonesia with the capacity to serve more than 16 million wireless subscribers. The deployment in Indonesia represents a major milestone for HCPT as it provides a modernized subscriber data management system and paves the way for growth in a rapidly expanding market over the next five years. The project, which took less than two months to...

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NTT Labs Develops Gigabit-class "i-Visto" Video Transmission

Researchers at NTT Laboratories in Japan have developed a novel technology to transmit uncompressed video streams through IP networks at rates exceeding 1 Gbps. NTT's "i-Visto" technology, which has been field tested in cooperation with National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), transmits uncompressed HDTV signals by acquiring a path in the optical network whenever it is needed, without allocating additional network...

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FCC Seeks Comment on Universal Service Fund and Intercarrier Compensation

The FCC is seeking additional public comment on universal service and intercarrier compensation (ICC) policies that should be part of its forthcoming National Broadband Plan.The universal service fund (USF) currently consists of high-cost, low-income (including the Lifeline and Link Up programs), schools and libraries (the E-rate program) and rural healthcare support mechanisms. The FCC asks whether the size of funding for each support mechanism...

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ZTE Ships 200,000th Software Defined Radio Base Station

ZTE noted the shipment of its 200,000th Software Defined Radio (SDR) base station. It took the company almost one year to achieve the first 100,000 SDR units shipped by April 2009, and only six months to ship the second 100,000. The fast growth showcases global operators' recognition and favor of ZTE as a leading provider of SDR base stations, helping them meet the rapid market needs.A variety of multi-band and multi-standard wireless communications...

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Dell Enters SmartPhone Business, Signs China Mobile and Brazil's Claro

Dell confirmed plans to enter the smart phone business and announced distribution deals with China Mobile and Claro, which serves more than 42 million people in Brazil as part of the America Movil network. The initial Mini 3 smart phones are designed around the Android platform. Details of phone models will be announced on a partner-by-partner basis when devices are available in stores, anticipated in late November for China Mobile and year's...

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Nortel Postpones Carrier Ethernet Auction

Last Friday, Nortel called off a schedule auction of its global Optical Networking and Carrier Ethernet businesses. Nortel said it canceled the auction in light of ongoing discussions with interested parties. Qualified bidders are now required to submit offers by November 17, 2009. The Company expects to provide a further update on the auction process and sale of these businesses shortly. http://www.nortel.comIn October, Ciena agreed to acquire all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN)...

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Zayo Bandwidth Expands Fiber-to-Tower in Philadelphia

Zayo Bandwidth will deploy TDM and Ethernet services to an additional 300 wireless tower sites in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas of Pennsylvania in support of the current mobile platform and the upcoming transition to 4th generation technologies. The deployment will enable the delivery of future LTE wireless network services. http://www.zayo....

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Ericsson Completes Acquisition of Nortel's CDMA, LTE Business

Ericsson completed its acquisition of substantially all of Nortel's CDMA business and LTE assets in North America. Under the deal, which was first announced on July 25, 2009, Ericsson paid US$1.13 billion. The acquisition includes the transfer of important CDMA contracts with North American operators including Verizon, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, Bell Canada, Telus and Leap, as well as LTE assets, certain patents and patent licenses relating to CDMA...

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